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Oct. 18, 1927.

j 1,645,807 G. W. GRANT I BOX Filed April 12. 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 G. w. GRAN-T v BOX Filed April 12, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Oct. 18 1927.

UNITED STATES GEORGE W. GRANT, OF EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORTO LOVELL COVEL 00.,

; 1,645,807 PATENT OFFICE.

OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

BOX.

Application filed April 12, 1923. serial no. 631,694.

The present invention relates to an improvement in boxes. It Comprises what may be termed a combination shipping, display and dispensing box, for inaccordance with the object of my invention it is my purpose to so equip an ordinary pasteboard shipping box having a'body and cover that the goods may be shipped in it in the usual manner and afterward by a slight manipulation the cover inverted may be applied to the body of the box and act both as a cover for the box and also as a display tray in which a portion of the contents of the box may be placed and displayed while the remaining contents left in the body of the box may be dispensed therefrom through an opening left at the back.

The improved box is essentially adapted for usein connection with candy or other small wares."

The invention can best be seen and understood by reference to the drawings in which a type of box is shown illustrative of the invention and in which 1 Figure 1 is a perspective of the box after being converted into its display and dispensing form.

Fig. 2 is a perspective of the box in form for shipping.

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross section of the box as shown in Fig. 1, and I I Fig. 41 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings 1 represents the body of the cover. Both are of common type and form.

Attached to the top face of the cover are a pair of wings 3, 3. These wings are preferably made of the same material as that of which the box and cover are made. Each of the wings is fastened to the top surface of the box cover by means of a turned strip or piece 4 glued or otherwise securely fastened thereto. The wings proper and strips 4 are preferably integral, being struck from the same blank and the wings are movable relatively to their retaining strips along edges 6 thereof by reason of the flexibility of the material. The strips 4 are attached to the top surface of the cover so that the edges 6 thereof will lie parallel with and just inwardly removed from the side edges of the cover or, in other words, in positions where the wings when turned outwardly vertical to the top surface of the cover will box and 2 the occupy positions substantially in continua- I tion of the sides of the cover but preferably just inwardly removed from the plane occupied by such sides. Thus fastened and arranged, the wings will overlap when folded and may be folded to lie flat on the top surface of the box cover when not in use. They accordingly do not interfere in any way with the normal use of the box as a shipping box. Both the wings 3 are alike in size and form. In length the wings are'substantially equal to the length of the box cover, one end 7 of each wing, hereinafter referred to as its fore' end, being slightly removed from the adjacentfore end 8 of the cover. The wings are angular in form, each wing deepening from its fore end 7 to its rear end 9. The wings present also various edges and parts which perform special functions in accomplishing the conversion of the box into a display and dispensing box, and can best be understood in the light of the box thus converted.

In the first place it will be observed, es-

pecially by reference to Fig. 1, that the cover 2 in the converted form of the box is inverted whereby it may form a display tray. The fore end 8 of the cover is made to rest upon and overlap very slightly the top edge 10 at the one or fore end of the box body. From this point the cover is inclined upwardly, assuminqthe natural incline of a display tray. 'fiius positioned, the rear end 11 of the cover will be raised appreciably above the top edge 12 to the opposite orrear end of the box body leaving an open space of appreciable size through which access may be had from the rear to the interior of the box body.

When thus positioned the cover is held securely in place by the respective wings 3. Turned outwardly these wings will lie substantially in planes parallelwith the sides of the body of the box lapping by the sides inside the box body by portions 13. Thus extending the wings will close the spaces along the sides of the box between the cover and the sides of the box, the wings being substantially a continuation of the sides. Thus the box is entirely covered and the contents of the box concealed except for the opening in the back through which the contents of the box may be dispensed. I

Acting as braces, the wings will support the raised rear end of the cover by resting upon the top edge 12 at the rear end of the 2; A box having a body and associated box body. Each of the wings preferably has at its rear top end a V-shaped cut with meeting edges 14, 15 respectively, and it is the edges 14eof these cuts in. the wings at the points of the V which rest upon the edge 12 of the box body. I a

Endwise displacement of the cover is prevented by the end bearing against the oppo site ends of the boxbody of thoseportions 13 of the'wings o ve'rlappiii'g the sides and lying within thebox body. Of these portions the V foreend 7 thereofwill bear against the insideof the "fore end of the box body and latfth e rear the ends 15 thereof "will bear a jaiIiSt the inside of'the opposite or rear end (5 tithe box body.

Lateral displaeement of the wings is pre' vented in o'ne direction by "the lateral hea riiigjoif the portions 13 er the wings against the ea eeehheidee er the box hea on the inside thereof and in an oppositevdirec'tion elipsfldcnt from the wings which overlap saidsidesand'bearagainst the same on the outside thereof, V

'Havihgthusfnlly described my invention,

1 elai'm an, ,des'ire itosecureby Letters Pat ent of the United States bf1.-A box having a body and associated therewith eee ve hh display member with foldable wing-s attached thereto along the eiaee'iheeeei and removed them the fore end oi said member whereby said member may e be disposed at the-fore end theieofjb'eyond said wingsto rest noon the top 'edgeof the fore end of said body with extension i'nen ihehhe direction upwardly ever said Lhedy ieevih e epehihg at theme: with entrance thefet iioiigh into the interior of said body and with the wings iinfolded then extending de whwaifdly to co-operate 'witlithe sides oi "said body -sulos'taintially in 'eontiniiation thereof and with exteiision also to be-e1- upoh the te eagehe thereare'nd er eeidbedy,

therewith a tray-like display member disposed to rest along its front end upon the top edge of the fore endof'said body with inclination upwardly. over. said body, wings attached to the display member extending downwardly to rest upon the top edge of the rear end of said body for supporting the display member in its inclined position, and co-operating also with the sides of said body in siibstanti'al continuation thereof with 3. A box having a bodyand a flanged cover convertible to form a dis lay menibe'r when inverted and disposed'to rest along its frontlend u on the front edge of th'e fore end of said ody with inclination upwardly ever said body, wijn s'afitachedto the top shrface of the cover a 011,; the irespectiivsides thereof and normally foldable inwardly over said 'covei" to rest there/01 said Wingsffvvhen unfolded, 'with the eever'inverted to occupy its. inclined position as aforesaid, extend ing downwardly to rest p o'n theftop edge of therea-r end of said for supporting ltl'ie display member in its inlined position, era

co-operating also with thesides of in substantial continuat'onf thereof jwith downvvaid exteiisio'n iiisi' e "said body lfapping by its sides, and with end hearing agamstgthe forward and rear endsof said body for preventing endwise displacement of a the display memhe hhd'mean's for p evehe ing lateral displacement of said wings when unfolded "an ee-eperatihg with said body as aforesaid. l a GEORGE W. G ANT. 

